Ethan Fenton wins inaugural Paul Lowe Award for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Established in honour of the late photojournalist and professor Paul Lowe, the new annual prize celebrates works by UAL graduating students

Ethan Fenton, 'The Shed' (2026). Photo: Courtesy of the London College of Communications
The London College of Communication has announced the winner of the inaugural Paul Lowe Award for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.
The prize was set up in honour of photojournalist and professor Paul Lowe, who passed away in October 2024. The annual £500 prize celebrates exceptional work by graduating students from the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography programme, where Lowe taught.
This year’s winner is the photographer Ethan Fenton for his project The Shed. Bringing together large-format analogue photography with audio recordings, projection mapping and machine vision, Fenton’s work interrogates how we interpret personal memories and photography, and asks what happens when technology gets involved in that process.
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